Seedling Quality

This publication contains papers from a workshop designed to increase understanding of seedling quality and its evaluation in order to enable nursery managers and foresters to improve cultural practices and reforestation success. It brings together information on the principles, procedures, and predictive abilities of quality tests such as nutrition, morphology, and root growth potential.

The Thin Green Line symposium was held July 26-28, 2005 in Thunder Bay, Ontario and focused on the State-of-the-Art in Reforestation. This document is a compendium of invited and volunteer papers and posters presented at the symposium with the following themes: status of reforestation and afforestation around the world, nursery methods to produce target seedlings, planting and planting site treatments to optimize regeneration, and enhancing timber production and non-timber values through stand establishment.